herman de vries: [wit is overdaad]
1st edition numbered 120 copies
published by herman de vries : Arnhem 1960
artists' book with 20 white pages in folder, stapled
dimensions: 13.5 × 10.5 cm
In very fine condition
the first book by herman de vries appeared in 1960. 'book' may be a big word for this small format booklet of a few sheets, bound with two staples and, surprisingly, without print. no title on the cover, it is blank too. on the colophon page only a few words are printed, in very pale ink and in four languages, like a poem: 'wit / wit is overdaad / blanc est surabondance / white is superabundance / weiss ist übermässig / wit / wit / wit is overdaad'. one might say that this book is at the same time an end and a beginning. it constitutes the end of the work of a scientist soon to renounce the study of nature and who has just announced this by renaming the offprints of a personal scientific publication 'manifest of castrated reality'. it also marks the final point of his parallel work as a painter, related to the abstract movement 'zero'. from 1956 herman de vries has been making monochrome paintings and from 1959, white paintings. [source: Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, 'beyond language', in herman de vries. les livres & les publications (saint-yrieix-la-perche 2005) 29]

Screenprinted cover and two gelatin silver prints.. This edition of Gorgona contains 2 original photographs taken in Denmark.
Photographs are identical, presenting two different stages of photographic development.
Miljenko Horvat: Gorgona
A photograph of the lighthouse and the dead seagull from Skagen, which Miljenko Horvat shot in 1963, during his visit to the further most north point of Denmark, was sent to Josip Vaništa and used as a photo-contribution to the anti-magazine Gorgona no. 7 from 1965.
This enigmatic, but almost emblematic image contains within itself the basic principle of not only Gorgonian photography, but also of Horvat's personal approach to the medium. And this is firstly a thought, and only far after it an actual photograph of the seaside with a lighthouse and a dead seagull. The photograph unambiguously has the built-in component of the "mysterious reality".

Marijan Jevšovar: Gorgona 3
Zagreb, 1962.
Stanje: odlićno. Condition: very good.
Periodical with screenprinted cover and screenprinted insert. page (each): 8 1/4 x 7 9/16"
21 x 19.2 cm
Marijan Jevšovar was born in Zagreb in 1922. Besides his painting, he was an accomplished graphic designer, specialized in books and posters. He died in 1998 in Zagreb.
The art of Marijan Jevšovar is punctuated by his association with Gorgona (1959 -1966).

Mangelos - manifest; o društvu bez umjetnosti. 50x70cm, screenprint on paper. An active member of the Gorgona group in Zagreb from 1959 to 1966, Dimitrije Bašičević was a conceptual artist devoted to the idea of “anti-art” and a desire to mov

Marko Ristić & Krsto Hegedušić - Turpituda.
Zagreb, 1938. Sa vrlo rijetkim letkom ispravaka.
40p Format: 20x28cm
U odličnom stanju
Paranoično-didaktička rapsodija jednog od pokretača srpskog i regionalnog nadrealizma i avangarde Marka Ristića. Ilustrirano sa sedam crteža Krste Hegedušića, Zagreb, 1938. Zaplijenjeno odmah po objavljivanju.
With the scarce errata leaf. In very fine condition.
With seven drawings by Krsto Hegedusic.
A "paranoiac-didactic rhapsody," one of Ristic's most inflammatory works buttressed by powerful, shocking surrealist-expressionist images by Hegedusic. This is a work enshrouded in legend and some mystification. Any public discussion of sex and violence was absolutely forbidden under the statutes of the Yugoslav government by the 1930s. Word of this project reached the censors in advance of its release, who ordered the police to raid the printer, seizing the entire edition on the order of the Law of Protecting State Security and Order by Royal Edict and had it destroyed. This is very scarce as well as important.

Screenprint on cardboard, 8 pages, published by the artist. 14 1/10 × 9 4/5 in. 35.8 × 25 cm.
As he himself accurately foresaw, Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos died in 1987 at the age of 66; in his manifesto Shid Theory, published and exhibited in

Harold Pinter: Tea Party. Gorgona No. 8, 1965. Josip Vaništa, vlastita naklada. Vaništa sent Harold Pinter the seven issues of Gorgona that had
already come out and asked him to “design his issue like Vasarely
and others had done”. Pinter, in turn, sent

Knjigarad = Bookwork. Artist Book. Limited and Rare. Galerija Studentskog centra, Zagreb 1980. This book is stapled in the center, creating space for a catalogue for two artists. The left side contains Martek's work and the right side contains Stilinović'